Eureka is still ruined because of Pagos

[Reynhart]

Does any of this give the impression Yoshida only anticipated a minority audience for Eureka?

Well, yeah, it does...

Y: I usually compare FFXIV with a theme park, but the Forbidden Land of Eureka won’t be a place where everyone would want to go. For example, there are people who don’t want to go to horror houses because they don’t see the point in getting scared on purpose. For example, on a date, the boyfriend might want to invite the girlfriend to go the horror house, but the girlfriend just doesn’t seem to find it fun. In other words, it’s not like everyone wants to go to the horror house, but there are people who just love the adrenalin rush they get from it. Think of Eureka as something like that.

They wanted Eureka to be casual content that players could hop in and out of at their leisure. They more or less said as much.

Did they really ? Apart from the player deducted "old relics were casual and this relic is tied to Eureka therefore Eureka must be casual", was it ever said that Eureka would be casual ?